However, her husband is an ordinary clerk whose cherry on the cake is a “a gun … treat himself to a little shooting, the next summer, on the plain of Nanterre, with some friends who used to shoot larks there on Sundays” (Maupassant 27). Mathilde dreams about beautiful things she cannot afford, she wants to live with “the quiet vestibules, hung with Oriental tapestries, lighted by tall lamps of bronze, and on the two tall footmen in knee breeches who dozed in the large armchairs, made drowsy by the heat of the furnace” (Maupassant 3). The only thing that does not go with her wishes is her real life which is not as rich and luxurious as she wanted it to be. The main character of the story The Necklace written by Guy de Maupassant is a young woman Mathilde Loisel who wants to live a happy life. Learn more Mathilde Loisel Character Analysis
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